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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 210L · Pottstown, PA · January 16, 2000

Date: January 16, 2000 · 13:55 local
Place: Pottstown, PA
Airport: Pottstown Limerick Airport
Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N732AV
Reported as: Cessna 210L
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 2,700 total2,000 in this make and model25 in the last 90 days

N732AVRegistered now · Cessna 210LS/N 21061371 · Built 1976 Airframe modelCessna 210L Engine modelContinental IO-520 seriesReciprocating

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

(-23) Aircraft N732AV departed Pottstown municipal (N47). The pilot retracted the gear and the gear unsafe light was illuminated. The pilot then noticed the gear did not comletely retract. The pilot then went to the emergency gear extension procedure and the gear would not completely extend back and loick in the down position. The pilot then flow the aircraft for 2 hours to burn off the excessive fuel and made a gear-up emergency landing at Pottstown Limerick (ptw) airport. The aircraft had only minor damage and no injuries occurred.

As the FAA filed it

(-23) AIRCRAFT N732AV DEPARTED POTTSTOWN MUNICIPAL (N47). THE PILOT RETRACTED THE GEAR AND THE GEAR UNSAFE LIGHT WAS ILLUMINATED. THE PILOT THEN NOTICED THE GEAR DID NOT COMLETELY RETRACT. THE PILOT THEN WENT TO THE EMERGENCY GEAR EXTENSION PROCEDURE AND THE GEAR WOULD NOT COMPLETELY EXTEND BACK AND LOICK IN THE DOWN POSITION. THE PILOT THEN FLOW THE AIRCRAFT FOR 2 HOURS TO BURN OFF THE EXCESSIVE FUEL AND MADE A GEAR-UP EMERGENCY LANDING AT POTTSTOWN LIMERICK (PTW) AIRPORT. THE AIRCRAFT HAD ONLY MINOR DAMAGE AND NO INJURIES OCCURRED.